[Gllug] Year, month,day?

[Xander D Harkness]

Neil Fryer wrote:

>Hi All
>
>I have some apps that create log files in the form of logfile.log.20021112,
>now I want to gzip these on a nightly basis, the part that I'm battling with
>is how would I say 
>
>gzip logfile.log.yyyymmdd, as there will be existing logs in the dir called
>logfile.log, which will be live, and I don't wan't to zip that?
>
could you not try gzip logfile.log.*
or
gzip logfile.log.????????

Cheers
xander

>
>Thanks
>
>Neil Fryer
>Systems Administrator
>12Snap UK Ltd
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>
>
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